Boy Scouts of America votes to end controversial ban on openly-gay scout leaders

"if approved, would still allow "each individual troop or unit to determine its own policy regarding the eligibility of openly gay or bisexual scoutmasters or other adult leaders." It would also allow "previously removed leaders to reapply for their positions."

There's still the problem that it presents itself as a teacher of leadership while--even if it was trying to find compromise--what it teaches is that this leadership still allows units to discriminate at will against us.

So all this vote does is to allow nondiscrimination as an option which would be lovelier if that didn't also teach a type of leadership without integrity because how can you argue compromising on issues of discrimination as a badge winning value? It ain't, Blanche, it ain't.

They seem to be trying to walk a line that exists only in the abyss while presenting themselves as a builder of foundation and that seems more likely to fall than to fly.

"First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, about 60 miles northeast of Columbia, sent a letter to 63 scouts in a troop sponsored by the church saying that it ended its sponsorship of the Boy Scouts on July 31."